icostamp.com writes a dated record of your file onto a blockchain, so you can show later that the file existed and has not been altered. You submit a file. The tool hashes it. That hash goes on chain, and nobody rewrites it afterwards. For freelancers, studios and legal teams, the record answers one question cleanly: whose work is this, and when did it show up? How icostamp.com Protects Files From Tampering The file itself never leaves your machine. What gets stored is a hash, a short stri...

It wasn’t until 1959 that any being on Earth saw our Moon’s farside for the first time. Because the Moon is tidally locked to Earth, we only ever see its familiar nearside face. In the early days of space exploration, the Soviet Luna 3 and spacecraft succeeding it transmitted the first lunar farside images . While these captured images at low resolutions by today’s standards, the photos nevertheless revealed a far more cratered hemisphere than the Moon’s nearside. It looked more akin ...

I close my eyes and see the Great Hall. This is where they host the Met Gala! I can’t help but think about that when I stand and watch as tourists congregate, ask for information, and walk around to get to the exhibits they want to see. There are at least three ways you can enter the main galleries: by walking forward, past the information desk, towards the decorative arts, sculpture, and more (or, if you take the stairs, to see European Art, photography; or by going left and right, each tak...

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Rescue quantum procrastinators by letting them prove their chronological superiority to a quantum attacker. Rescue quantum procrastinators by letting them prove their chronological superiority to a quantum attacker.

It’s a very chilling 38°C outside at the moment. Those are at least 35 more that the max temperature this dog considers acceptable. But he’s doing his best to ride the heatwave, like the rest of us. Thank you for keeping RSS alive. You're awesome. Connect via email :: Sign my guestbook :: Support for 1$/month It’s a very chilling 38°C outside at the moment. Those are at least 35 more that the max temperature this dog considers acceptab...

TL;DR Why I think software development is starting to feel a little more like conducting an orchestra. There’s a shift happening in software development that I don’t think we’re talking about clearly enough. For the last couple of years we’ve framed AI as a productivity tool. How much faster can it write code? How many more features can we ship? How much cheaper can we build software? I think that’s the wrong question, but I understand why. The first thing AI became good at w...

Go’s proposal for package flag was accepted on July 23, 2026. It fixes an awkward case in programs that read the same setting from command-line flags, environment variables, and defaults. Suppose a server has a -debug flag whose default is false: fs := flag . NewFlagSet ( "serve" , flag . ContinueOnError ) debug := fs . Bool ( "debug" , false , "enable debug logging" ) if err := fs . Parse ( args ); err != nil { return err } The serv...

Marcus Hutter —oldheads will remember him from AIXI —recently published a book: Job-Less Utopia: Macroeconomics in the Age of AGI . I’m always curious what the people building AI think or want the future to look like, and I’m also always looking for non-doomer takes on the post-AGI future, so I decided to read it and review it. The first thing to say is that nearly every sentence is written by AI. To his credit, Hutter says so plainly: Claude also served as the most dilige...

During the heyday of AT&T, it was often said that the telephone system was the largest machine ever built. The "hello machine" certainly was vast, but whether or not you consider it to be a single machine raises challenging questions of definition. The Internet, I think we can all agree, is not a single machine but a system of interconnected ones. The telephone network, though, felt a lot more like one device. "One Policy, One System, Universal Service" was once the slogan of AT&T, a message tha...

I was watching a Jeopardy from 2004 (The Game Show Channel is rerunning Ken Jennings streak) and the following question raises a good question. The contestants where Ken, Jerry, Jennifer. In Double Jeopardy there was a category  Biblical Name The Same. The clue was three last names (e.g., Driver, Sandler, West ) and the correct response is a biblical name that is the first name of people with that last name ( Adam : Adam Driver, Adam Sandler, Adam West). What happened with Biblical Name The ...

The Creation of the World, by Ivan Aivazovsky, via WikiArt . Welcome to the reading list, a weekly roundup of news and links related to buildings, infrastructure, industrial technology. This week we look at pepper-spray drones, China’s chip Manhattan Project, Commonwealth Fusion’s fundraise, and a proposed Dulles Airport renovation. Roughly 2/3rds of the reading list is paywalled, so for full access become a paid subscriber. Housing and Cities It’s been a while since we checked in on 3D p...

Tuesday was Stateless MCP day - the rollout of MCP 2.0, or the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification to use the more formal but less memorable name. This is the most significant change to the MCP spec since it first launched, and has also served to reignite my personal interest in the protocol. For background: MCP is the Model Context Protocol, which describes a standard way to expose new tools to LLM-powered agent frameworks. It was introduced by Anthropic back in November 2024...

by Aarti Laddha , Richard Diaz-Cool , Rishika Idnani , Venkatesh Selveraj Netflix supports a vast and evolving set of features and content types, ranging from 4K streaming and immersive audio to live streaming and cloud gaming, across a diverse ecosystem of devices. However, not all devices are created equal. Hardware limitations such as available RAM, CPU cores, display capabilities, or platform support mean that some features cannot be supported on certain device models. To ensure the best...

In 1948, IBM introduced the 604 Electronic Calculating Punch. This machine was a programmable calculator, about the size of a double refrigerator. It was not quite a computer, but was programmed by plugging wires into a plugboard. This machine read numbers from a punch card, performed up to 60 calculations on these numbers, and then recorded the results by punching holes in the card. 1 It processed 100 cards per minute—over one card per second—and IBM advertised it as the equivalent of 150 ...

On my 22nd birthday, two years ago, I had a pretty pleasant day. I don't really remember what about it was good, I probably had an enjoyable task at work and a good time with collegues; and in my good mood, I also went down to the book shop right outside my workplace and picked up War and Peace. The cashier made a little comment as he scanned the book, apparently impressed or surprised. Why'd I pick it up? Well, why would anyone want to read the book? Because it's a classic and everyone says ...

C++26 adds a new container to the standard library: std::hive . It is meant to occupy the ground between std::vector and std::list . Like a vector, it keeps its elements in contiguous blocks of memory, so scanning it does not require you to chase a pointer for every element. Like a list, it never moves an element once it has been inserted: your pointers, references and iterators stay valid, and you may erase any element in constant time without disturbing the others. Internally, a hive is ...

Engineers often complain that visibility should be their manager’s job. In other words, they think engineers should be able to focus on the code, while their manager figures out who’s doing well and rewards them. This attitude is an extension of the “school fantasy”: the idea that your workplace should operate by the same rules as your school or university. After all, you didn’t have to worry about “visibility” during your education. You simply did the assignments and tests you w...

Snow Leopard was a version of Mac OS X released in 2010. It was billed by Apple as having “0 new features”, with a focus on refining the system, improving efficiency, and fixing bugs. Those of us using Macs at the time welcomed the news after living with updates that seemingly broke as many things as they introduced with each release. This idea is so powerful—and so longed for—that it’s escaped containment among the Apple crowd. I’ve seen everything from Linux distro to phone upda...

Forking tsc to support Go's defer. Forking tsc to support Go's defer.

0.0 Context Setting Friday, 31 July 2026 in Portland Oregon, after I just finished today’s show with Russell. Of which, well, that’s the thing that caught my attention. 0.1 Events: How People Work, Live! All show all the time, I guess? Next one’s with Dylan Wilbanks -- register, check out the schedule, and watch previous shows on the show page . That’s a lot of the word show all at once. 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention 1.1 Organizational Entropy, Activation Energy...

I've been using the built-in 10 Gigabit Ethernet on my Mac Studio for a few years. It works fine: I can edit 4K video straight off my NAS over the network, and run backups at around 1 GB/sec. But... I want more . I upgraded my rack and my NAS to 25 GbE a couple years ago, and wanted to upgrade my main workstation, too. I've been using the built-in 10 Gigabit Ethernet on my Mac Studio for a few years. It works fine: I can edit 4K video straight off my NAS over the network, and run backup...

What's up on the smolweb? July 2026 roundup 2026-07-30 06:15 Summer is here, the big web is choking on AI slop, and the smolweb keeps quietly growing. Here is a roundup of what happened on the small web, the smolnet, and around the Gemini protocol in July 2026. Geminispace approaching 3,500 active capsules On July 26, Techrights reported that the Lupa crawler (the main Geminispace survey) now lists 4,761 total capsules , with 3,487 recently connected . That is up from 3,400 in April 20...